Psylocke

Real Name Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock/Kwannon

DOB 16 May 1960/unknown (mid 1960s)
Place of
Braddock Manor, United Kingdom/Japan
Origin
Height 5'11"
Weight 70kg
Powers
Betsy Braddock possesses a wide range of telepathic abilities, including the
ability to read minds, communicate mentally with others over long distances, stun
others with mental bolts and create illusions in the minds of others. Kwannon is a
mutant whose body is exceptionally suited for the discipline and physical
conditioning of martial arts training.
Skills Modelling, Ninjitsu
Status Regular member, Red Team
Outside
Fashion
Interests
Known
Jamie (brother), Brian (twin brother)/unknown
Relatives
History to Betsy and her brothers are the children of an interdimensional being, Doctor
May 1994 James Braddock, and all have superhuman abilities as a result of their father's
origins. Her twin brother, Brian Braddock, is this dimension's current Captain
Britain (I).

In the early 1980s, Betsy alternated between modelling and working as an agent
with S.T.R.I.K.E. She briefly replaced Brian as Captain Britain (II) in 1986 when
asked to do so by R.C.X., but was blinded by Slaymaster. Brian resumed his role
as Captain Britain, and Betsy left for Switzerland to recuperate. While there, she
found that her telepathic senses helped compensate for her lack of sight, but did
not make up for her loss.

Mojo kidnapped Psylocke from Switzerland that August, and gave her artificial
eyes. This apparent act of philanthropy was, however, a means of influencing
Psylocke's actions and providing live footage for Mojo's interdimensional mass
media corporation. When the Mutant Alliance rescued her, Psylocke offered to
stay with the team, and they accepted her, just as Mojo knew they would.

As time passed, Mojo's control over Psylocke increased. Her feelings for
Longshot were heightened by Mojo, who had Psylocke deliver Longshot to him
as a captive. The Mutant Alliance helped Psylocke free herself from Mojo's
influence and rescue Longshot (8 October 1987), and in retaliation Mojo stopped
Psylocke's artifical eyes leaving his dimension. Once again blind, Psylocke left
the Alliance and returned to the United Kingdom.
Betsy participated in a number of adventures and missions over the next few
years, helping battle the Brain's Eurostar and her nemesis, Mojo. At the start of
1991, she left for an extended holiday in the Far East. While at Vladiostok, the
Hand kidnapped her at the Mandarin's order. The Mandarin had captured
Kwannon, a ninja about whom little is known, and used his ten rings of power to
merge Betsy and Kwannon into a single person (3 February 1991).

Before he could do much more, however, Admiral Galen-Kor's Kree forces

snatched away the merged Psylocke for his fake X-Men team. Psylocke and the
others were brainwashed and trained for three months before being used to lure
the New York X-Men away from the New York mansion before the Kree forces
struck at the abdicated Shi'Ar empress, Lilandra (7 May, 1991). In the aftermath
of the attack, the Kree-trained X-Men were accepted as reinforcements for the
depleted San Francisco team that relocated to New York in June 1991.

Like the others, the Kree-induced conditioning gradually wore off on Psylocke.
As it did, Betsy's personality traits came more to the fore, and Kwannon's
receded. Psylocke and Black Lightning began an ill-fated romance, ending shortly
after the remnants of Black Lighting's conditioning disappeared and he left the X-
Men in September 1992, unable to continue as an active member. She became a
member of the San Francisco X-Men with the merger in December 1992, and is
currently Cannonball's deputy leader.

As the most experienced of the current team's telepaths, Psylocke worked

especially closely with Stellar throughout the second half of 1992, treating
Bastion's victims and refining her telepathic powers. They grew increasingly
close, until Stellar moved into Psylocke's bedroom (4 February 1993) and they
came out as a couple.